(A monk from the Buddhist organization Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force, BBS) uses his phone to take pictures during a speech at the BBS convention in Colombo, September 28, 2014.Image Credit: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte) The rise of Sinhala-Buddhist ultra-nationalism (allegedly with political backing) could threaten reconciliation. By Zachary Walko. Since coming to national attention in […]
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A 2500 year-old Culture That Was! – Sharmini Serasinghe
The current wave of Sinhala-Buddhist supremacism / extremism / racism, and attempts to establish a ‘Sinhala-Buddhist Raj’ in Sri Lanka, if left unchecked will eventually lead to fragmentation of Sri Lanka into separate states, of the minorities. It may not happen in the immediate future, but it’s a reality staring us in the face. With […]
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Sri Lanka: Who is Behind “Sinha Le” – Ranga Kalansooriya
( Do you belongs to same blood generation, don’t you – a Sinha Le social media poster) What is this movement Sinha Le? Who is behind it? Who are the leaders? These questions had been within the society until a few weeks ago by a group of its leaders who emerged from nowhere who made […]
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Dispelling Gathering Storm Clouds Over Sri Lanka – Kishali Pinto Jayawaradena,
(Gotabhaya at FICD) As former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa emerged smiling into television cameras this week following summons issued by Sri Lanka’s Presidential Commission on Serious Fraud et al (PRECIFAC), his jibes were clear. ‘So there were rogues in our time’ he said, ‘…there were rogues in the past as well and rogues also, in […]
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Advent of ‘Sinha-le’ Movement Reawakening the Racial Monster
By Cassendra Doole. “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” – Arthur Schopenhauer […]
